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. 2021 Jul 12;30(7):956–963. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8682

Table 6.

Comparison of 2015, 2017, and 2019 Funding Analyses

  2015 Budget data 2017 Budget data 2019 Budget data
Female-dominant, underfunded 14 13 14
Male-dominant, overfunded 11 11 11
Male-favored 25 24 25
Deviation (male-favored) 5.98 5.49 5.19
Female-dominant, overfunded 8 9 8
Male-dominant, underfunded 1 1 1
Female-favored 9 10 9
Deviation (female-favored) 2.40 2.63 2.82
Percentage of favored diseases that favor males 73.5 70.6 73.5
Deviation ratio (male to female) 2.49 2.09 1.84

Deviation measures the extent to which funding differs (multiplicatively) from that which is burden-commensurate.